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FALMOUTH – In a first-round win at the Buddy Ferreira Classic, Duxbury coach John Blake played the role of Rodney Dangerfield clamoring for his team to get some respect. In last night's final, his team earned certainly earned every bit of respect.

The No. 10 Dragons roared out to a three-goal lead en route to an impressive 5-2 win over No. 2 BC High in the championship game of the Buddy Ferreira Classic and may have finally impressed enough Super Eight voters by rolling to their first-ever Classic title at the Falmouth Ice Arena.

Tyler Powers and tournament MVP Shayne O’Brien each scored a pair of goals to help Duxbury improve to 15-2-3, but more importantly may have impressed just enough going into the Super Eight selection and seedings Saturday.

“To beat a team like BC High you almost have to have a perfect game and I thought we were as close to perfect as we could be,” said Blake, who made the Classic final once before, losing to Arlington Catholic in 2006. “This game had a little bit of everything in it, you had five-on-threes, penalties both ways, we jumped out to an early lead, they claw their way back…but to have a chance we had to be the more physical team.”

Duxbury did just that and stunned the Eagles with hard hitting along the boards that produced the game’s first two goals. Trevor O’Brien rifled one from the slot at 12:02 and then his twin brother Shayne wrapped one around the right post with his backhand at 13:58 after stealing the puck from behind the net with excellent physical play.

Shayne O’Brien doubled his goal load with his second tally as the senior forward rang the post from the left faceoff circle to put BC High on its heels at the nine-minute mark of the second period.

Overall, Blake’s squad came out on fire on both ends of the ice in the first two periods and collected seven penalties, including two right as the second period ended. Blake actually was whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct after a slashing penalty to the Dragons combined to give BC High the golden opportunity to get back in the contest, trailing 3-0 to start the final period.

“We felt we came in and carried the play a little bit and the first 7-8 minutes both teams were feeling each other out like a ping pong ball match, the puck was kind of jumping back and forth but when it settle down and we had it 5-on-5 I think we had a little bit of an advantage today," Blake said.

The third period was nothing like 5-on-5 for either team as it took BC High all of 25 seconds into the two-man advantage to score their first of the game as Chris LaLiberte was sitting all alone off the right post and Jake Lemanski found him with a cross-ice pass from the left wing for the power play goal.

Tucker Kelly finally started to be tested after facing only six shots in the first two periods and the senior netminder did not disappoint. Kelly pulled out all the stops to limit the damage the rest of the way on the man advantage.

Later it was the Eagles' turn in the sin bin as a four-minute major helped Duxbury to its fourth goal. Powers put his first one home but Lemanski answered on the very next shift with a short-handed tally as the Dragons maintained a two-goal lead, 4-2 at the 7:34 mark of the third.

Kelly was steady the rest of the way, including an incredible series of saves as BC High coach John Flaherty pulled Brandon Payzant with 2:35 to go in regulation to give the Eagles a 6-on-4 advantage after Duxbury’s ninth penalty of the game.

Powers capped off the win with an empty netter just after the penalty expired and Blake credited the defense.

“We had to come in here and play physical, we had to take some penalties by playing physical but we got a few more bounces than BC High and got out of here with a win,” Blake said. “I thought the third period was probably (Tucker’s) best period of the year, he knows down the stretch in big games he is going to have to make big saves for us. He’s a kid that has gotten more and more confidence all year long. He’s battle tested and he rose to the occasion."

In an earlier consolation game, Archbishop Williams toppled Waltham, 3-1, behind a strong outing from Ryan Dunn. The senior captain punched in two unassisted tallies to extend the 1-0 lead the Archies held after one period.

Fellow senior Mike Jessman started the scoring with a top shelf goal from a center feed from Mike Sorenti, then Dunn followed up with one in each of the next two periods with his second sealing things off a short-handed opportunity. Dunn picked the far right top corner after streaking down the left slot untouched.

Waltham’s lone goal came at 8:56 of the third as Ben MacEwen found daylight under the pads of Archies’ Steve Jenner to ruin the senior netminder’s shutout. The Hawks’ Shamus Egan matched Jenner in net with an excellent effort and earned player of the game honors for the Hawks.

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First team tournament selections included Shayne O'Brien, Falmouth goalie Jake Beaton (who had 90 saves in the tournament), as well as Jessman, BC High's Ryan Shea, and the Austin Prep duo of J.J. Layton and Bobo Carpenter.

This was the first season the Cape Cod Classic was renamed to honor longtime Falmouth coach Buddy Ferriera, who retired at the end of last season.

Blake thanked Ferreira and said his team was playing for the iconic coach, as Ferreira was a mentor for Blake when he started at Duxbury.

"It's fitting that the first year they renamed the tournament after Buddy Ferriera, a public school wins it," Blake said. "Buddy was a mentor of mine and he and (late Hingham coach) Garrett Reagan, God bless his soul, kind of took me under their wing and taught me a lot about coaching and a lot about kids and a lot about the game of hockey. We kind of wanted to win this one for him, and Buddy Ferreira too."